Golf club cleaning and scraping device



Jan. 2, 1951 T. M. KANTER 2,536,942

GOLF CLUB CLEANING AND SCRAPING DEVICE Filed Sept. 10, 1948 IN V EN TOR.

v ff- Patented Jan. 2, 1951 OFFICE GOLF CLUB CLEANING AND SCRAPING DEVICE Theodore M. Kanter, Cleveland, Ohio Application September 10, 1948, Serial No. 48,582

1 Claim.

The present invention comprises a novel cleaning device for cleaning the grooves provided in the faces of the striking heads of golf clubs.

These grooves are provided for the purposes of ness for the purpose of imparting spin to the ball.

It is quite important to golfers that the grooves in the club head faces be kept free from such accumulated foreign material. It is therefore the object of this invention to provide a handy cleaning device for this purpose which will not only serve to loosen the coagulated foreign material from the grooves, but at the same time remove such foreign material therefrom, all in one operation, so to speak.

The invention will now be described more in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is an elevational view of the cleaning device of the invention.

Figure 2 is a bottom plan view of the same.

Figure 3 is a view showing the head of a golf club with the face thereof provided with the grooves to be cleaned by the device of the invention, the latter being shown in dotted lines in position for cleaning.

Figure 4 is a section on the line 44 of Figure 3, showing the cleaning devicein full lines, partially broken away, disposed for cleaning action.

Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 2 but illus trating a modification in respect to the scraper blade.

The cleaner device comprises a handle member I which may be of spherical shape as shown, for convenient engagement with the hand of the user, and to this handle member I is secured one end of a scraper blade member 2. The free end of the blade 2 is sharp or pointed, as illustrated, the sharp or pointed free end being designated by the numeral 2. A plurality of stiff bristles 4 are secured to the handle I and extend therefrom in the same direction as the blade 2, the bristles being disposed to surround the, blade 2 which is positioned generally at the center of the group of bristles 4.

The blade 2 is tapered or gradually reduced in cross sectional dimension adjacent its free sharp or pointed end 3. In Figure 1 the blade 2 is illustrated as having the conically tapered portion 5 which narrows .down to the sharp point 3 at the extreme outer end (see also Figure 2). The portion 5 of the blade 2 has a taper angle preferably corresponding to the angle of taper of the grooves 6 provided in the striking face I of the club head generally indicated at 8, such grooved faces being ordinarily provided in respect to those golf clubs usually designated as irons. The grooves 6 are of V-shape in cross section, with the walls of the grooves diverging from the apex at v the bottom or base of the grooves upwardly and outwardly to the striking surface I.

Preferably the sharp or pointed end 3 of the blade 2 is flush with the line of the free ends of the bristles 4. The bristles 4 are made of stiff but resilient or yieldable wire-like material, such as steel wire or the like.

In the use of my invention the device is employed as a brush to remove coagulated dirt and other foreign material on the face I of the golf club head 8. In this connection it will be apparent that the free outer ends of the bristles 4 when pressed into contact with the striking face 1 will have an adequate abrasive or cleaning action, and yet they will be sufiiciently resilient or yieldable to permit the tapered portion 5 of the blade 2 to enter the grooves 6 so that the point or sharp end 3 of the blade 2 may be pressed clear down to the bottom narrow apex of the groove 6 to remove foreign material lodged therein- Under such conditions the bristles 4 will yield to permit penetration of the point or sharp end 3 of the blade to the base of the groove 6, and as the tapered portion 5 is moved along the groove with scraping and cleaning action to dislodge the foreign material coagulated therein, the bristles will also enter the groove 6 and serve to brush away the material dislodged by the action of the blade 2.

If desired, another form of blade may be employed, and. this is shown in the modification of Figure 5. In this instance the blade 2' is formed of relatively flat metal stock approximately rectangular in cross section with the tapered edges 2a and 2b converging to form the sharp edge 20, the angle of convergence of the tapered edges 2a and 2b approximating the angle of convergence of the walls of the grooves 6 of the striking faces of golf clubs with which the device is to be used for cleaning purposes.

In both constructions of my invention as'described the scraper blade member is rigid and'unyielding as is necessary for same to perform its function.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

A golf club cleaning device of the class .described, comprising, in combination, a handle member, an unyielding metal scraping blade rigidly secured thereto at the end thereof opposite its handle portion and having a tapered free end formingcwsharpten'd adapted .to enter a tapered roove in the striking face of a golf club head, 10

length as the blade, whereby the sharp end of the latter is substantially flush with the'free end of the bristles.

THEODORE M. KANTER.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 541,537 Hankey June 25, 1895 908,791 Mason Jan. 5, 1909 935,146 Froese Sept. 28, 1909 1,199,148 Bemis Sept. 26, 1916 1,309,599 Seaboldt et al. July 8, 1919 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 373,271 Great Britain May 23, 1932 

